Use, Trump fires Tillerson, replaced by the trusted CIA boss, Mike Pompeo

   

According to Nova, Rex Tillerson already has one foot outside the State Department. The White House, in fact, would have developed a plan to replace him with Mike Pompeo, current director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The New York Times newspaper believes it will be a matter of weeks and then the epilogue of a long-standing relationship between President Donald Trump and the Secretary of State would be staged. In the chessboard of appointments, Republican Senator Tom Cotton, who played a key role for the president on national security issues, has already been consulted in Pompeo's place. From the White House press office, Sarah Huckabee Sanders reassures that Tillerson continues in his role at the moment. The replacement plan would have been hatched by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and is expected to be unraveled by the end of the year. Tillerson's departure cannot come as a surprise given the public disagreements with Trump on crucial issues such as the nuclear deal with Iran, the approach to North Korea and the confrontation over Arab allies. Tweeted bickering, especially from Trump. The fall of the curtain at the end of the year on Tillerson makes him the least long-lived secretary of state in nearly 120 years. His appointment was a gamble, Tillerson having no experience in government, politics or military, in fact comes from the world of industry, from the top of the oil company Exxon. In his government experience he has been very involved in reorganizing the department's machinery, cutting costs, but also pushing several diplomats to resign.

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